Showing posts with label Central Banks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Central Banks. Show all posts

Saturday, December 3, 2011

IF Issue: Saturday Dec 3, 2011

Excerpts and links from the latest issue:

BOB CHAPMAN/KERRY LUTZ

Bob Chapman - The Financial Survival - 30 Nov 2011

Bob Chapman - The Power Hour - November 28, 2011

US MARKETS

Do we need central banks at all? It’s a good question. We have had the Federal Reserve since 1913 and their management has been a disaster for Americans and a wealth builder for its owners, the Wall Street banks. It has also allowed the financial sector to control our country. It is the seat of elitist power. The Fed has debauched the US dollar via their monopoly and enriched their owners beyond belief. Any entity that has to resort to the subterfuge of using a cloaking term, such as quantitative easing has to be a scam.
The Federal Reserve and other central banks were created to inflate currencies thereby depreciating them and in that process the owners of the Fed and their colleagues’ reaped enormous profits. Entities like the Fed have been doing this for centuries. You might say such a monopoly leads to currency debauchery. Reflecting on such a track record there is no reason to have central banks. A federal Treasury is all that is needed. Not that it is perfect, it is no worse then having a privately owned central bank. We have suffered under the Fed since 1913 and it is time to terminate the Fed and return our monetary authority to the US Treasury.
In the latest turn of events the Fed has mastermind another rescue in conjunction with the ECB. Europe hurting for cash, particularly US dollars, brought England, Japan, Switzerland and Canada and ECB into their latest money creation scheme. They will lower prices on dollar liquidity swaps on 12/2/11 and extend these swap subsidies until 12/01/13. What has happened as we pointed out previously is that US money market and pension funds dropped participation in short-term bond markets in Europe from 55% of assets to about 20% of assets. That meant European banks couldn’t function. The eventual outcome would be no dollar investments in Europe until their financial house is put in order.
In addition there are on again off again stories that the IMF has been talking with Italy and Spain. Both sides deny it and behind the scenes we are told talks have in fact been going on for weeks.
We can assure you that the dollar swap is really all coming from the Fed. England and Japan are probably window dressing and Switzerland and Canada may participate. This is a Fed operation. What confuses the public is misdirection engendered in utterances by policy makers. There is absolutely no coordination, which belies confusion, which leads to lack of belief in any statements. Again, the problem is not liquidity, but solvency. They are all broke and reorganization would take years to accomplish. They cannot do what they should do, and that is purge the system, because they’ll lose control and that is the key and seat of elitist power. If they do the right thing the public will then discover what they have been up too and they’ll end up where they belong, in jail.
These dollar loans will be run through the ECB, the European Central Bank, giving euro zone banks direct access to dollars. It is all subterfuge in order to continue the force short term. Additional liquidity is a stopgap measure, which not only deceives, but also is injurious in the long run. The result is the Fed will continue to prop up European financial markets with no solution in sight moving from one calamity to another until the systemically insolvent conditions take the system down. These players have many things they can pull yet, so don’t think the system can fail soon. It could take several more years and the result will be inflation, hyperinflation and higher gold and silver prices.
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Monday, September 19, 2011

IF Issue: Saturday Sept 17, 2011

Excerpts from the latest issue:
Brent Johnson – Bob Chapman

Bob Chapman - The Financial Survival 14 Sept 2011

Bob Chapman - Kerry Lutz - September 14, 2011

Bob Chapman - Ringside Politics - September 14, 2011

BOB CHAPMAN - 5TH SEPT 2011 - GONOB RADIO (1/6)

9/12/11 - GONOB Radio Interviews Bob Chapman Part 1/6

Bob Chapman - FREEDOMIZER RADIO - September 13, 2011

Bob Chapman - Ringside Politics - September 14, 2011

Bob Chapman - Kerry Lutz - September 14, 2011


US MARKETS

We have warned subscribers and listeners and those on the Internet over and over again that government was going to come after your private retirement funds including 401K’s and IRA’s that hold $6.6 trillion in investments.
This past week in a grand deficit cutting bargain the Senate Finance Committee explored “Tax Reform Options Promoting Retirement Security.” The excuse is to make 401K plans more efficient; to keep Social Security afloat and to switch funds from these retirement plans to be used elsewhere by government. It is called a looting procedure. The idea is to replace the 401K with a tax break that would allow government to offer bigger benefits to low earners and changes in withdrawal choices at retirement. It would include a change in the way Social Security benefits are calculated to reduce eventual payout and subsidize the poor via a government guaranteed annuity. There would also be an increase in the retirement age. This approach is similar to something you would find in the communist manifesto. Take from the bigger producers to subsidize the lesser producers. Each according to his ability and each according to his means.
We are told Social Security will be out of funds in 2036, which is untrue and the Congress does not mention that the trust fund has been looted since June of 1935. All that is left are worthless bonds. Those that read the Act will find that if government does not have the funds for Social Security they must sell bonds to fund any shortfalls. This fact is, of course, ignored by the Congress and the person who calls himself president. They are more interested in loophole-closing rate-lowering tax reform, which are code words to cut current Social Security income and transfer those funds to other pet socialist projects, that government deems more important. The Congress could care less that you paid taxes for a lifetime for this payout, and it is not a benefit, because you paid for it, and have your benefits shifted to those on lower income brackets or to pet socialist projects. What upsets the socialist and fascists in government is that the tax break for defined contribution retirement plans is that it will cost the Treasury $212.2 billion between 2010 and 2014. What really galls them is that 80% of the payout goes to the top 20% of earners and they want those funds to be redistributed to the less fortunate, to offset debt or to be applied in other socialized areas. One of the proposals is to roll back the current $16,500 annual 401K tax deferred contribution to a level of $10,500. If this is followed government would capture $450 billion in additional tax revenue, and low-income workers would not be affected. We suggest congress change the law and tax the $2.2 trillion parked offshore in tax havens at 35% and bring in revenue of $800 billion or more and to keep that revenue stream going. That means only $1 trillion would have to be cut from military spending and we’d have a balanced budget. That would be just too simple and it might upset the transnational conglomerates and the military industrial complex.
Needless to say, Americans would stop saving conventionally and purchase gold and silver related assets that have appreciated more than 20% annually for the past 11-1/2 years. These changes would render 401Ks and IRAs redundant. The incentive would be gone and all those funds might not be available to the government for redistribution to low-income citizens.
The bottom line is the government wants your retirement and more taxes. Private annuities could face insurance company collapse if the Dow went to 3 or 4,000 and of course the government is insolvent. For current retirees there has been no COLA increase as inflation has ranged from 5% to 11.2% and by the looks of it the CPI will be rigged lower again, so there never will be an adjustment in payout. The latest is a chained CPI, which would further lower benefits.

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